Gospel for June 30 2024 – Mark 5:21-43
Gospel Reflections for June 30 2024
New beginnings…
There are several beginnings in today’s Gospel. Good news for all of us!.
A woman who had been sick for 12 years comes to Jesus for help. That is an amazing testimony of her faith.
She had already seen many doctors …who only made matters worse! Moreover, sickness then was considered a sign of God’s disfavor, leading to her alienation from others and perhaps even her own family.
Life had not turned out well for her. You could understand if she became cynical and angry. Yet she is not. She courageously approaches Jesus for help and is rewarded with a miraculous cure.
Similarly, a synagogue official asks Jesus for help for his young daughter, yet when Jesus arrives the girl is already dead. You could understand if the official became cynical and angry that Jesus was too late. However, it is never too late for Our Lord, and He raises the girl from the dead!
We will celebrate the beginning of our nation this week, on July 4th. At our founding in 1776, you could understand that people then would have become cynical and angry and given up any hope that there could ever be justice from English tyranny, or even reconciliation between slave holding and free states.
Yet, the founders of our nation responded with our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution that each told a hopeful story of freedom and justice for all. That started a new beginning and trajectory of freedom that eventually ended slavery and created the most prosperous and powerful nation in world history!
Those noble ideals did not begin easily at first, and our history has had its ups and downs living up to those original ideals, including a terrible Civil War and many legal civil rights battles since. However, our beginning in 1776 continued a whole series of new beginnings of more and more social justice.
This week, there is a new beginning for Fr. Michael Tang, who will soon leave St. Bruno and live conveniently closer to Loyola Marymount University where he has been a Professor of Art for over 30 years. The commute from here has been a challenge! We wish him all the best.
What has remained constant from this Gospel to today is that new beginnings are possible, and that it is never too late to receive blessings and a beautiful new life from Our Lord.
God Bless!
Fr. Dave
Hi Fr Dave: Thanks again for your gospel insights. You have a wonderful way of making the gospels so relatable to our lives. God bless and Happy 4th of July, Argyle
Happy 4th of July!
Hi Father,
I really enjoy reading your weekly Gospel Reflections every week; and although I am not always able to express the impact they have on me, I want to make sure that you know they are very helpful to me in applying the Gospel’s meaning to my (and I am assure others) daily life, along with all of the other conditions going on in our world. Thank you Father and keep up the good work!
Mike
Thank you so much for your kind words! I really appreciate them.
Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee your beautiful interpretations of our Jesus’ words of loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee new beginnings and loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you for our preciousJesus lives beautifully in you!!! If the above message is from Mike Smith Margo’s husband , please pray for our Jesus’ healing touch of love on his recent surgery!!! Thank you and loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee you!!! Loveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, franca and dick
Thank you!
Oh maybe we’ll be blessed with Fr Tang coming to St Max once in awhile!
Thankyou for reminding us to KEEP THE FAITH
Happy 4th!
God Bless!
Happy 4th1
God always knows what is good for us. Thank you for laughing at me while I was standing right in front of you. I am so glad you thought I was so very funny.
Dina
A sense of humor is necessary in today’s world for sure!